Definition of "bewilder" [be•wil•der]

• To confuse or befuddle, especially with numerous conflicting situations, objects, or statements. See Synonyms at puzzle. (verb-transitive)
• To cause to lose one's bearings; disorient: The twists and turns in the cave soon bewildered us. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "I beg the reader not to let the term bewilder him but to make it his own."
• "The buttons on his push-button phone kind of bewilder him at times."
• "Go to Michelin-starred chef Heinz Beck's Apsley menus 'bewilder' critic"